Fictional resistance movements and groups
This article examines the resistance organization in works of fiction that resist tyranny. While these are fiction an author will often seek realism by examining similar historical organizations. Conversely, people's views of real situations are often affected by works of fiction that are part of the social conscience. Several fictional resistance organizations have been named after historical resistance groups.
Fictional resistance organizations
AVALANCHE
AVALANCHE are a resistance group from the video game Final Fantasy VII, who attempt to save the planet from the Shin-Ra company that is attempting to drain the lifestream from the planet and converting it into 'Mako energy'.
Bajoran Resistance
In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine the Bajoran Resistance was formed upon the invasion of and brutal occupation of Bajor by Cardassian forces.
British Resistance
In Resistance: Fall of Man, the British Resistance fights to liberate England from the Chimera with the help of an American soldier named Sgt. Nathan Hale (Resistance: Fall of Man)
Brotherhood, The
From the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
French Resistance
In 'Allo 'Allo!, it is led by Michelle, this resistance movement fights against the Germans in occupied France during World War II.
Not a resistance group, but rather a universal manual for potential resistance groups to fight against genocide and ethnic cleansing in the book Cryptonomicon.
Homeworlds Resistance
In the 1993-1995 sci-fi animated television series Exosquad, Homeworlds Resistance was an undercover resistance movement on Neosapien-occupied Earth and Venus during the war. Because Mars, the third Homeworld, was controlled and populated primarily by Neosapiens even before the war started, there was no resistance organizations there. The Resistance was composed of people who couldn't fit into Phaeton's regime and abandoned hope that the Exofleet will return some day (in the first years of the war, Neosapiens successfully held it away from the Homeworlds).
Magneto's Resistance Movement
This is Magneto's resistance movement formed in reaction to humanity's racial, other negative attitudes towards the mutant humans who have unusual powers and abilities. While Professor X advocates that humans and mutants are equal, Magneto regards humans as a danger to mutants and that humanity should be forcibly exterminated, while humans believe mutants should either be enslaved or destroyed. Two of its combat details are the Brotherhood of Mutants and the Acolytes, led by Magneto.
Manhattan Resistance
From the EA Games title Freedom Fighters. The Manhattan Resistance is a group that forms in New York City on the island of the same name after the Soviet Union invades the United States of America. The group is led by Isabella Angelina, Mr. Jones (who later in the story turns out to be a Soviet general), and the game's protagonist, Christopher Stone.
Maquis
The Maquis in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager were formed when the Federation gave the Cardassian Union some territory in exchange to end a war. Those Federation citizens living in the "disputed territories" formed a paramilitary group for defense, due to Cardassian raids, and also in reaction to being betrayed by their own government. This paramilitary group is called the Maquis, named for the World War II-era French Maquis resistance in German-occupied areas. When the alien Dominion appeared in the Alpha Quadrant, they slaughtered the Maquis. Only a few survived in Federation prison or mental hospital colonies, on Voyager, or in hiding.
Rebel Alliance
The Rebel Alliance is the prominently featured resistance group in the Star Wars movies, from "A New Hope" to "The Return of the Jedi", who oppose the oppressive Galactic Empire. After the fall of the Empire, they become the ruling New Republic.
Resistance, The (V)
The RESISTANCE from the movie and TV series V. In this, aliens invade the planet under the guise of friendship. When the real intentions of the aliens are known, the people of Earth form The Resistance. The aliens arrive on Earth in gigantic "Flying Saucers".
Red Faction
Red Faction are a resistance group from the video game under the same title, who attempt to escape form Martian mines ruined by the evil company Ultor.
Resistance, The (Half-life 2)
The Resistance movement from the computer game Half-life 2 are a group of people dedicated to overthrowing the Combine empire, an alien civilization that has invaded earth due to the actions of the protagonists (Gordon Freeman) actions in the first Half-Life game.
Sliders
Some of the Sliders TV shows depict resistance groups that fight "native" tyrants and/or aliens, mainly the Kromaggs on the different Earths the main characters encounter as they "slide" from Earth to Earth. The show is set in the present(at the time it was filmed), thus this may qualify as "alternate history". One episode depicted the grisly consequences of the successful passage of legislation similar to Prop. 187 in CA., another depicted the US under Communist rule, yet another depicted what happens as lawyers settle lawsuits in Old West gunfights instead of settling them in court, and yet other shows depict Earth under alien dominion, with some Earths fighting them. Another Sliders show depicted an Earth that is similar to the "Sword and Sorcery" movies. This implies that if you can imagine what ever you're imagining, there is an Earth or more than one Earth in which what you're imagining is that Earth's reality.
Wolverines
In Red Dawn, The Wolverines, are a resistance cell, named after the wolverine and a high school sports team. Upon the invasion of the United States by Soviet and allied forces, a group of kids form a resistance group when Soviet paratroopers parachute near their school and begin firing on teachers, students. Eventually, their resistance cell, other resistance groups, alongside that of remnants of the US military eventually drive out the Soviet and allied invaders.
Fictional resistance fighters
- Ensign Ro (Star Trek:TNG)
- Princess Leia (Star Wars)
- Mike Donovon (V, the TV series)
- Magneto (The X-Men, the Marvel Comics franchise)
- Han Solo(Star Wars)
- Luke Skywalker(Star Wars)
- Major Kira, a Bajoran Resistance commander, now a delegate of Bajor on DS-9(Star Trek:DS-9)
- Christopher Stone {Freedom Fighters EA Games}